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Obviously I don't agree with anybody on 100% of all things, but if I had to throw out some of who I sarcastically call my personal philosopher kings:
- Cordelia Fine
- Philip N. Cohen
- Ella Yurman, YouTube
- Noam Chomsky
- Big Joel, YouTube
I don't trust opinions, just facts.
How do you decide what is a fact and what isn't?
Whose facts do you trust the most then? After all - there aren't that many of them for which a universal consensus among even credible scientists exists. Most facts aren't the absolute truth anyway but rather just our best current understanding.
I trust truth over facts
And what separates truth from fact in your mind?
Facts, by definition, are true
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Alan Watts
- Anthropic Claude
- Google Gemini
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
Edit: in that order.
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If I had to pick an "intellectual hero" of mine, it would be Sam Harris. It's not so much that I trust his opinions but I trust his thinking process. I can't think of anyone else I pay so much attention to while finding so little to disagree with.
I bet that, considering the platform I'm at, if someone recognizes the name they almost definitely don't like the guy. If you want to discuss that then I'm willing to for as long as you can be civil about it.
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